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RADIO M I RROR
(Continued from page 58) in Southern California and added at least fifty men to their various office staffs during his past year of "friendly counselling."
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BRIDES, GROOMS, ETC.
Los Angeles: KHJ's production staff member Wayne Griffin and Elinor Warren Huntsberger, concert pianist, have been Mr. and Mrs. since December 12th. . . . When filling out a Social Security blank recently, KHJ's technician Ted Bliss gave his station pals the first intimation of the November wedding which made Miss Frances Maher his wife.
Charlotte, N. C: Grady Cole, WBT's Comet Rice comic philosopher, Ford newscaster and Stewart-Warner commentator, recently surprised the station staff by announcing his marriage to Miss Helen Sisson of Norwood, Ga. . . .
Chicago: About the time the happy couples above were honeymooning. WBBM tenor Jack Brooks and his wife (Helen Keppler of the CBS Chicago music library) were enjoying their first wedding
anniversary.
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OUR HELPING HAND DEPARTMENT
Chicago: Cheri McKay of WBBM's Sunday noon broadcasts, News with Music, would like to know the name of the unknown fan who sends her those American Beauty roses before each program.
Cincinnati: While announcing the Stumpus Club over WLW, Tom Slater bemoaned the fact, on the air, that he was still single while Charlie Dameron, singer, was the papa of a new baby son.
Since, Slater's mail has been loaded with proposals daily, but the prize was from a listener who wrote: "I'm not speaking for myself, but for my cousin. She'd make you a fine wife."
Cincinnati: Vicki Chase, WLW soprano, likes nothing better than French onion soup. You're welcome, Vicki.
RADIOS AND AHS
Like the proverbial step in the dark, a radio voice is liable to land anywhere, and do anything.
Take the case of the Nashville attorney
who sought M L , (name on
request, so help Jack Harris, who told us the story) to inform her of an estate awaiting her signature. Her signature had to be on the dotted line by a certain date or the estate forfeited.
With the deadline three days away, the attorney, in desperation, bought an announcement over Nashville's WSM. The announcement was made at 5:30 p. m. and in less than two hours the attorney had a telegram from Mississippi, signed by the party he sought and dated exactly one hour after the time of the broadcast. Jack forgot to tell us the size of the estate, but we did see the telegram.
Then there was the Ken-rad Unsolved Mysteries program over WLW in Cincinnati. In one script the continuity writer had a suspect fictitiously named Roger Anderson, and as fast as it could be done, from Mitchell, S. D. came this letter:
"Your unsolved mystery drama of November 15th was very good, and though I tuned in too late to get all the details to enable me to solve the mystery, I can help solve it by the process of elimination.
"I will now take the stand in my own behalf. I swear that Roger Anderson was not the murderer. I know for I am Roger Anderson ... 1 am writing to clear my good name of the stain of murder and to tell you 1 enjoy your programs very much."
COPR. 1937 FELS & CO.
BANISH "TATTLE-TALE GRAY'
WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP!
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